than the city of chicago. in 24 hours it's burned another 240 square miles. so now it's bigger than los angeles. the second biggest wildfire in arizona history. another 3,000 people have packed up and cleared out. and our affiliate, knxv reports arizona senator jon kyl and his wife are among them. the latest on the monumental task of fighting this fire. with the management team in the town of springer vial, first off, is your command notice danger there? isn't the fire very close now to springerville? >> yes. actually command post is with the evacuation and the pre-evacuation zone and also have folks that are reorganizing in the evacuation zone. we're basically residents, packed up and ready to move if we need to. >> is this fire still zero

percent contained, as they said? >> that's correct. >> so how are the winds going today? i mean, are the winds still your biggest enemy in trying to get this under control, and if so, what's being done to fight this? >> well, we've been able to handful really well, because yesterday's winds weren't as bad as there is been, but today looks like we may have gusts up to 35 miles an hour. you have that with low dose of humidity, it makes it easier for it to move around. we're expecting we'll have more movement this afternoon. until that happens we're able to have the helicopters dumping large amounts of water. >> and last we heard, only ten buildings or so had been lost. is that a testament, would you say, to the firefighters? or has the fire just so far avoided the more populated areas? >> we've done a lot of really

outstanding protection. structure production. we've got resources from all over the country. lots more engines came in last night. they're coming in today. so we have ample resources right now. so a lot of that, that protection, and a lot of the folks in the community clearing brush and being very fire-wise, as we call it, doing things ahead of time. ahead of times years ago, that's been really, really help follow to save a lot of structures. >> suzanne fleury with a very big job ahead of you there in springerville. thank you very much. more now on the arizona heat spreading from the upper midwest to the northeast corridor. chad myers is watching that. i knew was a big problem when minneapolis hit 103 yesterday. minneapolis. the hottest day there in 23 years? >> yeah. it's just -- unbelievable. not that they broke a record yesterday. they beat it by like 10 degrees. you go back, back all the way by 20 years just to find a day that

was this hot. okay. it's only the beginning of june. it's not summer yet. dodge city. 102. rochester, minnesota, 101. even sioux city, 99. we've had just a huge snow pack in the rocky mountains. it is -- this was one of the biggest record years for snow pack in the rockies ever. from the sierra to the rockies, ever. so now all of a sudden we have these 60, 70, 80, 90-degree days in the rockies and 100-degree days in the east, but the snow is melting fast. that snow melt is going to cause some flooding. flood watches and warnings over a lot of colorado. you can't be outside in colorado without knowing about all that, because the water is rushing everywhere. today, heat index, 101. tomorrow, the same story. new york city, now we will get a slight cold front that will come through the northeast, and help out by friday. look at that. by new york city standards, 82 is going to feel like you're in

the ice box. because that's a lot better than where you've been. the sheet still on obviously in the west. firefighters. look at this. from the satellite. smoke coming in pouring over and into new mexico. the fire line the problem. now the fire is getting so large. this being about ten miles or so. maybe a little more than ten mile. fire all the way around there. firefighters, don't really know where to begin. there's just so many hot spots, and the wind will glow again today. 20, 30 miles s an hour moving sparks around. >> thank you, chad. amtrak is a spending service across much of the midwest because of the flooding missouri r river. releasing record amounts of water and putting spres on flood control levees including one in iowa threatening to fail in hamburg. struggling to get pumps and drinking water to cities along the river. the flooding is likely to continue through most of the summer. accused killer joran van der

sloot is in a lima, peru courtroom champged with first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old stephanie florez. her body found in his hotel room in may of last year. today lawyers will try to convince the judge to consider a lesser sentence claiming it was crime of passion and not premeditated. peruvian authorities have yet to file formal charges. van der sloot is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of alabama teen natalee holloway in aruba back in 2005. president obama's counterinsurgency strategy, only meeting limited success in afghanistan. that is a sobering assessment of a two-year senate foreign relations committee investigation. the report says billions of dollars in foreign aid to afghanistan over the past decade may have been spent in vain, because the country may not survive a u.s. troop withdrawal set to begin next month. the report also urges president obama to rethink his overall war strategy. mr. obama is schedule odd to have a telly conference with

afghan fred hamid karzai later today. more on this story in about 30 minutes in our "globe trekking" segment. and in dallas, chalk up a big win for the mavericks, evening the nba championships at two games apiece. a win over the miami heat last night. the big man for the mavericks, their big man, dirk nowitzki, fighting a sinus infection, scored 10 of his 21 points in the final period. game five tomorrow night in dallas. not to be missed. congressman anthony weiner hasn't been able to say or do much of anything in the last week without a camera rolling, or a reporter trailing. but when it comes to the fight of his political life, all alone. who's calling on them to resign and what weiner is saying in response. that's next.

capitol hill is a lonely place today if your representative anthony weiner. the congressman is fighting for his frill life now and not getting much, in anything, in the way of support. in fact, the pressure's mounting on weiner to step down. the message came loud and clear from republican house majority leader eric cantor. it's a deafening silence from the democrat colleagues is any sign, it's it's pretty clear what their message is, too. >> it's up to congressman weiner

and his constituents to make that decision. i don't condone his activity. i think he should resign. >> whether you thought congressman weiner should resign? >> i'm not here to defend weiner. >> what do you think he should do. >> that's all i'm going to say. >> what advice would you give him if he asked you? >> call somebody else. >> support or not, congressman weiner says he's not going anywhere. cnn caught up with him yesterday outside the front door of his apartment and asked about cantor the call for his resignation. >> he's entitled to his report. careful. >> will you consider it? >> i'm not resigning, no. >> congressman -- how did you feel when you woke up this morning? >> thanks, guys. appreciate your patience. and buried in the whole mess, though, one bright spot for mr. weiner today. a new poll, a sampling from his constituents in new york city whether he should stay or go. look at this one.

according to the new york one maris poll, a little more than half questioned, want weiner to stay in congress. 30% thought he should step down and 18% unsure. another big unknown, whether weiner will officially be investigated. nancy pelosi sent a letter requesting an official investigation. something they must agree on first. the group released a statement saying, if and when an investigation is appropriate in any matter, the committee will carry out its responsibilities pursuant to our rules and with the utmost integrity and fairness. and speaking of integrity, the whole weiner debacle is again raising the issue of social media and fidelity. can tweeting constitute cheating? we'll hash out that argument in the next hour. you will definitely want to hear what our guests have to say about this one. so do you love tossing angry birds around or beating your friends at scrabble? in two minutes, i'll play your favorite games. a gateway to free stuff.

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it is our final day looking at young entrepreneurs shaking up the business world. my next guest, well, makes us all feel a little laeszy. a college student at 14. graduated 18 and is a millionaire now at 20. how did he do it? brian long noticed that people would play games on their smartphones for hours at a time. he created "kiip" a network offers rewards like winning a coupon for a can of soda after a new high score or completing a difficult level. joining me now from los angeles, thanks for coming on the show today. tell me, in simple terms, how kiip works. >> yes. it's very simple. a rewards network. you play your game. hit a high score, you get a level up and you get free stuff. >> and i'm curious how you raise

the four-plus million dollars to get it all started? >> yes. you know, i think it comes down to a lot of venture capitalists. and how we're revolutionizing advertising over not just using banner ads or pieces of a screen. rather in a moment of engagement. when you feel you've accomplished something. something that helped them understand what we were trying to do to revolutionize the space. >> is that what separates it from the original pop-up or full-screen you weren't a big fan of? >> those are fine and they'll have their place. frankly what i believe in, i don't think people want to tap into those things when playing games. we realize when you're hitting an achievement and in that moment where you're happy, that moment is actually worth something. that was ultimately the epiphany i had. a 30-day long epiphany i call it. we worked through and understood

the elements around a game and realize the achievement is the university currency of a accomplishment. that was something that i think a lot of ad networks systems over looked. >> yeah. nothing like getting to that next level in a game and now actually getting something for. my question is, though, how do you get the right ads to the right people? a teenager may not need a 1-800 flowers coupon? a husband might get in trouble for playing too many games. how does it all work? >> that would be great. right? get the flowers, make up for everything. we look at demographics, are able to target based and general gender, age, sort of -- also interest in terms of the genre of the game you're playing. one of 9 things unique games, if you play sports game you're most likely interested in sports. there unique factors we can throw in there as well. one thing that's our one more thing we do that's actually pretty cute in that sort of reward unit is the ability to gift the reward to a friend. so as marketers we think we have telepathy and predict what

people want. frankly you may not know if someone wants a latte from starbucks or whatever in the moment they're rewarding, getting the reward in the first place. you can take that reward and gift it to a friend you know will like it. >> and what brands have signed on, quickly? >> yeah. a lot. sort of the highlight here. so there's a vit minh water, pop, chips sony. dr. pepper, the list goes on. pretty good cpg consumer brands. >> feels good being a self-made millionaire even though you're not old enough to drink yet. >> feel goods. feeling more great how we're able to change a space for the better and excited about how we can make advertising actually mean something now. >> well i think brian what you've done is really cool. i look forward to checking it out. thank you for coming on. >> thanks a lot. appreciate it. this week cnn is son a

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all this week cnn is taking a pulse of the people crisscrossing the country with a listening tour to find out what issues will motivate voters in next year's presidential election. david mattingly joins us from the villages retirement community in florida. david, curious.

what kinds of things are you hearing from folk there's about this? >> reporter: randi, all about the economy. the problems of foreclosure and unemployment have really come to roost here, and the past couple of days as i've traveled across central florida listening to concerns of everybody we could talk to, it all comes back to the economy and there's a certain amount of cynicism there that people believe washington just doesn't get it. four different people from four different walks of life. all feeling the pain of a down economy. in kissimmee -- >> i purchase add house for 255 and right now the house is worth $85,000. >> reporter: the biggest investment of her life whittling away. >> i'm stressed out, because i need a house for my kids, and for me, and i'm trying to work with the bank and the bank doesn't want to work with me.

>> reporter: strawberry farmer from plant city knows what that feels like. >> unlike most folks, feeling it in the pocketbook. >> reporter: rising costs ever everything from laber to fuel has him thinking there's a disconnect in d.c. >> i don't think they got clue. they never walked in the shoe of the common person. never been down here at this level. nerve her to wonder what they're going to eat tomorrow, or where they're going to live, or how are they going to get their fuel tank filled up. >> reporter: donna thomas of the villages worries about that all the time. >> we basically had to give up our regular insurance and go an hmo. and we've had to cut back on everything. >> reporter: when her real estate company of 40 years went under during the mortgage crisis, she lost everything she was saving for retirement. harold williams can't think that far ahead. >> you don't want your family to be without.

they look upon you to be the strong leader, and i don't want to let them down. >> reporter: in two months, this former orlando math teach hear had just two interviews. william says the job market will affect his next vote for president. >> i don't want sympathy but empathy. >> reporter: make that a lot of empathy, randi. the unemployment rate in this state is 10.8%, well above the national average. >> what do people want officials to do, david? what do you think should be done here? >> reporter: they want action. particularly when it comes to creating new jobs. a lot of people believe that as more people go back to work, then businesses will stabilize. real estate will stabilize, and a lot of the worries we're seeing right now will go away, and even the retirees who live here in this retirement community tell us that a lot of them are now supporting their adult children who are out of a job. so jobs, they feel, will help

benefit everyone from top to bottom, no matter where they are in this economy. >> all right. david mattingly for us there in florida with all the issues. thank you, david. and in about just one minute we're going to look at a major renovation of russia's public toilets. it sounds strange, but we want to show you has they're doing to make bathrooms more comfortable and safer. we'll be right back.

time to catch you up on storiesy might have missed. no letup in the wildfires in apache national forest. officials warn unless high winds die down and low humidity rises the blaze could tont to spread. it's already burned 389,000 acres and nearly 6,000 residents evacuated from their homes.

records show it's now the second largest wildfire in the state's history. in russia, the unveiling of what officials are calling bomb-proof toilets. they're to be placed in public bathrooms in moscow by the end of the year. the toilets have basins made from ultra strong fibrous concrete and they'll be heated. coming in handy during the cold winters for sure. the move follow as spate of deadly bomb attacks in recent years. they're hoping to avoid those. delta air lines says it's sorry for bag fees of almosts 3ds,000 charged to u.s. soldiers returning from afghanistan. delta said it was an issue of miscommunication. the issue sparked outrage after servicemen spoke out and post add video on youtube. the soldiers involved say the military allows them to carry up to four bags free. when they arrived in baltimore they were told by delta they could check only three for free. soldiers were charged $200 per

each extra bag. delta says it will reach out to each soldier and correct any issues they have faced. in germany, two more people who died from the e. coli outbreak nap raises the death toll now to 25. most of the victims in germany. the outbreak sickened more than 2,600 people. the cause of the outbrick still not determined. today the european union agreed to pay more than $300 million to farmers who suffered losses due to the outbreak. coming up in 90 seconds, a stunning story about an experiment in a 5-year-old boy. kirk murphy was his name. his parents thought he too many feminine traits. he liked to play with dolls. what ucla said about changing this boy, punish him for being a feminist. some called it the sissy boy experiment. it happened in the '70s, but the research is still being used. kirk's brother is speaking out. he says therapy ruined his brother's life.

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young boy from becoming gay. the story begins when the boy was treated at a gender clinic, his real name consumed. his treatment was calm add success. now, more than 30 years later were e finally know what really happened to him. his name is kirk murphy. for the first time on television, his family is sharing their story with us. they're doing it because they want you to know who kirk really was. they want you to know what he went through, and they want you to know what impact they say it had on the rest of his life. here's anderson cooper's special report. >> this is my brother kirk andrew murphy. this is when he was supposed to be -- >> reporter: this is the last time mark murphy remembers his brother kirk as a happy child. the photo was taken when kirk was 4, a year before he was placed in experimental therapy at ucla to treat what doctors identified as exaggerated feminine behavior.

>> it left kirk just totally stricken with the belief that he was broken. that he was different from everybody else. >> reporter: kirk's sister and brother say kirk was never the same after therapy. >> the om thing they did was destroy our brother. they took him away from us. he was empty. nothing there. >> reporter: in 1970, kirk murphy was a smart, outgoing 5-year-old growing up near los angeles. his mother, however, was worried about him. >> well, i was becoming a little concerned about playing with the girls' toys and stroking the hair. you know, the long hair and stuff. i was seeing feminine mannerisms. it bothered me because i wanted kirk to grow up and have a normal life. >> reporter: mrs. murphy says she saw psychologists on a local tv program talking about behavior like kirk's. >> he was naming all of these things. if your son is doing five of

these ten things does he prefer to play with girls' toys instead of boys' toys? >> reporter: the psychologist was recruiting young boys for a government funded program at ucla part designed to reverse perceived feminine behavior. one doctor involved in the program later called it "sissy boy syndrome." >> him being the expert i thought, well, maybe i should take kirk in. in other words, nip it in the bud. >> reporter: for nearly a year treated at ucla namely by a doctoral student at the time but went on the to become a founding member of the family research council, which lobbies against gay marriage, adopgs and laws that seek to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. he also was a prominent proponent of the belief homosexuality can be prevented. to treat kirk's so-called sissy behavior he was repeatedly placed in a room with two tables. he was observed through a one-way window. he was given toys to play with

and could choose between traditionally masculine ones like plastic knives and guns or feminine toys like dolls and a play crib. he could also choose clothing. an army hat and military fatigues or a girl's dress, jewelry and a wig. kirk's mother would be told to go in the room and ignore him when he played with the girls things and complement him when he played with the boys clothes. he cried when the mother did this, but doctors told her to ignore him. >> they write he's so upset, beside himself, they actually had to remove him from the room. after that they could one in and tell my mom, it's working and then bring him back in and start all over. >> having read this report, i keep coming back to the word

experiment. >> absolutely. without a doubt. >> reporter: this is not some proven treatment. this is -- >> no. >> reporter: this is experimental. experimental therapy even continued outside ucla. in his home, used poker clips as system of reward and punishment to make kirk act more masculine. do you remember these chips? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: were you award them as well? >> my parents added me to it so they could reinforce to my brother that, big brother's doing it, too. so everything's okay. >> reporter: these are the actual chips. >> the actual real chips. >> reporter: so blue chips were for masculine behavior? >> yes. >> reporter: and the red chips were -- penalty for feminine behavio behavior. >> yes. >> if kirk played with one of your dolls, he would get a red chip? >> yes. >> reporter: according to the case study, the red chips resulted in physical punishment by spanking from the father.

do you remember the beatings? >> oh, yes, sir, i do. many times did i move the stacks around. >> reporter: what do you mean? >> i took some of the chips and put them on my side. i did see the beatings. it was just like -- >> reporter: you would take kirk's red chips. the things given for feminine behavior, take them so he wouldn't get beat. >> yes, sir. >> that's the first thing you did when you walked in the door is you looked, what was the chip count today? what happened? what changed? how bad is it going to be. it was always bad. the whippen every friday night. >> one time he spanked him so hard that he had weallts up and down his buttocks i remember mark saying, cry harder, he won't hit so hard. today would be abuse. >> reporter: his outgoing personality change and he began to change in a way he knew his

parents and the doctor wanted him to. his family says the impact of the experiment's therapy lasted his entire life. >> he had no idea how to relate to people. it's like somebody turned off the light switch off. we got what we wanted and see you later. >> had you actually ate his lunch in the boys' bathroom for three years where he didn't have to put himself out there. even just to have a friend. >> reporter: in the case studiy of the ucla experiment, he was called kraig to protect his identity. considered his work with him a success writing his feminine behavior was gone and he was indistinguishable from any other boy. in numerous other published report over his three decade career, he continued to write positively about kirkal treatment using it as proof

homosexuality canny prevented. kirk's family only recently discovered his writings and they're outraged saying kirk was gay, but because of the treatment he was subjected to as a child, struggled with his attraction to men his whole life. >> he acknowledged himself as a gay man in 1985 on. he never had a committed loving relationship. because he wouldn't allow himself to. >> reporter: unable or unwilling to have a committed relationship with a man, kirk focused on his work and chose a career we're being openly gay wasn't even possible. he spent eight years in the u.s. air force and then held a high-profile position with an american finance company in india. >> kirk what do you think of your new nephew? >> reporter: this visit home in june of 2003 was the last time kirk's family saw him alive. nearly six months later, he took his own life. hanging himself from a fan in

his apartment in new delhi. kirk mu kirk murphy was 3 year 8 years >> why would he kill himself at 38 years old. doesn't make any sense to me. what i now think is, i don't know how he made it that long. and tonight on "ac 360" you can see part two of anderson cooper's special investigation. how does the doctor respond to the family's allegation? that his therapy led to kirk's suicide? we tracked him down to florida to find out and you'll find out tonight on "anderson cooper 360." and to the tune ofs 3ds 20 million per month spent wisely in afghanistan? don't bet on it. results of a stinging congressional report coming your way next. a taillight... ..we make a sculpture. we don't just make a sunroof...

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administration to reconsider its nation-building program which is a key part of president obama's counterinsurgency strategy. joining us from kabul, president obama is expected to have a conference with president karzai. has that happened yet and if so, any idea what they talked about? >> reporter: i suppose it happened. we've not heard from washington or kabul what the topics were, but clearly this telegraph, it's fair to say it's part of preparing afghanistan and frankly the american public for the announcement we're expecting to hear soon from the white house about this troop withdrawal. this could be when obama tells karzai what he wants to do or more than likely discuss a plan. obviously, the white house will want to present things as being kind of a joint agreed discussion, randi. >> nick, just talking about this report from the senate foreign relations committee. i'm curious, has there been

reaction there? afghan government reaction? tough wording. especially on the way afghans are using money from the united states. >> reporter: absolutely. i mean, often when you hear afghanistan officials, they point out the same thing the senate report is pointed out. that money is wasted by contractors. a profit overhead or costs, running operations here is going to xwaunsquander the money hand directly to afghanistan. the key thing in this report is criticizing that the style of behavior here. so much that the money spent is really about persuading afghans here to work for what many see as the occupation and risk their lives in the face of the insurgency rather than actually on the project itself. the afghan contractor has to achieve. one of the things really important to see in that report is that buy their estimation, 97% of the afghan economy is related somehow to the war.

be that military or development. the only nato presence there, coming to an end soon, the idea, could be really catastrophic for what's left of the afghan economy, randi. >> certainly sounds like that. nick, give us a brief update on the spring offensive. from your vantage point, is it fully under way or where are the hot spots now? >> reporter: absolutely it's on the way. taliban talled it "operation barter" teamed to have been quiet the last few days compared to the week before that. particularly violent. we have seen, i think -- it's something like 13 to 15 nato casualties, forgive me if i'm wrong, so far this month. which is awful for everyone concerned. i think really we're seeing the taliban having to push this summer to show they're not on the back foot after last summer's nato surge into the heartland in the south, and really we'll have to wait and see in the next couple of months whether or not they keep momentum going or whether nato's progress in the southern areas

seem to be effectively challenged. an insurgency frank lfr thly se enemy as leaving town. >> nick, thank you. driving down the street, ever get blinded by the sunshine? stick around to see a new invention that could take the glare out of your shades. down the hill? man: all right. we were actually thinking, maybe... we're going to hike up here, so we'll catch up with you guys. [ indistinct talking and laughter ]

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welcome back. we are all about big, new life-saving innovations on the show. today's big eye is about the aggravating glares from the sunshine with this heat wave sweeping across parts of the country, the sun you know, 1 a beast. we've all been there. driving down the street and, bam, that sun right in your eye. it can be especially dangerous, too. a company la now figured out a way to make your sunglasses focus on the glare and automatically block it out without, of course, creating any blind spots in your vision. here's a picture of what we're talking about. it's called dynamic eye. it's called that because it dynamically blocks the glare from the sun, depending on position of the sun compared to the sunglasses. recently highlighted as one of the top insengss of 2011 by "popular science." here to tell us all about it, the inventor himself.

chris mullin. joins us live from pittsburgh. thanks for coming on to talk about this. what inspired you to come up with this technology? >> well i was living in california and commuting east in the morning. west at night. every time i'd be facing into the sun. i knew enough about physics and liquid crystal displays to and liquid crystal displays to know i could do something about that. so i had the inspiration from facing the situation myself. >> so explain to me in simple terms, if you can, how this works. >> basically, we have put liquid crystal displays in the lenses of the glasses. an lcd is something that you use everyday in the computer or the telephone, and it is something that can darken one poshgs of the field of view without darkening everything else. so we put a spot on the lenses that dims down the bright areas to block out that light on me there without blocking out everything else. because we only darken one field of the view, we can darken it more than any other sun glass

technology. >> how do you see when you see through them? just fine? >> you see it just fine. we have taken out the bright parts, so that your eyes are not as strained anymore. you don't get a headache. but everything else is just like looking through regular sunglasses and without that interfering glare. gl we are showing just how it compares here in video. i'm not sure you can see it from your studio, but it is interesting to see the difference. what is next for this technology? i mean, when might we see it in the stores available to everyone? >> well, as you say, what's next is taking this prototype and turning it into a real product. we think it will take anywhere from 12 to 18 months. we need to develop the manufacturing process, because the lcds we are building are different from other lcds that you have on the phone. those are made with glass, and these have to be plastic and curved and extremely lightweight. >> i'm curious, because you must have a pair for yourself by now i would imagine, so how are your commutes going these days?

>> well, to be honest, my commute is very short, and so i don't really use it on my commute. and my prototypes are the first products that will be plain sunglasses and not corrective, and as you see, i need corrective vision, and i can't use it for everyday driving, but i can use it if i am out enjoying the outdoors. >> that is great. i look forward to seeing them on the market one day. thank you for coming on to talk about it. >> my pleasure. >> to check out more on dynamic eye and see the top inventions from "popular science" head to our blog cnn.com/ali. is there a divide between two tea party darlings? jim acosta will bring us the details live after the break.

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it is getting close to the top of the hour, so it is time for a cnn political update. jim acosta joins us live from the political desk in washington. jim, good to see you. i know that you have new cnn polling on president obama and the economy. what do you know? >> i do. well, you know, randi, this has been a very interesting week when it comes to polling, because there is an avalanche of new polling coming out not only on the race of the 2012 of the gop contenders, but on president obama's handling of his job as president, and there is a new cnn opinion research poll out that shows that osama bin laden

bounce that the president has enjoyed over the last few weeks has basically vanished. if you look at the numbers 48% approve and 48% disapprove. those are not terrible numbers historically and something that he cannot overcome, but the next number is striking, because it says something out there about the nervousness among americans about the economy. another great depression likely in the 12 months? americans say that no by a margin of 51% to 48%, but randi, that is nearly 50-50, half of americans are afraid that another great depression will happen. obviously, if you talk to a lot of economic experts out there, they are not sure that a double-dip recession will happen, let alone a great depression, but it shows you how nervous people are out there, and this is inside of the beltway and the inside of the story dust-up of the team forming around minnesota

congresswoman michele bachmann and team palin and some people say it is a contrived media story, but ed rollins who is expected to jump on board of the michele bachmann campaign when that is to be announced has said in recent days that sarah palin is not seriously, and she did not handle the vice president nod from jim mccain very seriously, and very seriously michael glassner who is in charge of the sarah palin pac fired this off. it is a doozy, and i'm just quoting here, because it is stark. beltway strategist ed rollins has a long, long track record of taking high profile jobs and promptly sticks his foot in his mouth, and to no one's surprise he has done it again. that from the team palin folks on ed rollins. they are claiming it is a contrived fight between the two candidates, but it is starting to sound like a real one if you look at that statement right there, randi. >> well, it does, but there is

no question that the political base does overlap. so, it could be interesting if they are both involved here. >> it does. that is right, and ed rollins has said, look, if palin runs, we will deal with it, but u you have to real looking at the bus tour last week that if michele bachmann hopped on a bus and went up the east coast she would generate the same amount of media attention, so she has to be thinking about that, and the team has to be thinking about that, and sarah palin is taking a closer look at michele bachmann and this is somebody that sarah palin has supported in the past. she has campaigned for michele bachmann, so it will be interesting to see how it develops. >> better than i do, so do you think that they are each watching to see who jumps in first? >> i do. i think that it is a fight between the strategists which makes it like the inside of baseball inside of baseball, but publicly, if you look at the recent interviews that michele

bachmann has done, she has said kind things about sarah palin and says it does not matter if she jo she jumps into the race, and sarah palin has said the same thing. so they are keeping the powder dry, but not so sure about the strategists, because they are nervous about going up against one another, because of the fundamentals there, because they are both popular in the evangelical, christian conservative community and both have a lot of of tea party support. so it is going to be a knock down, drag out if both of them get into this based on what we have seen in the last 24 hours. >> boy, this could get really interesting. jim acosta, thank you. >> it could get interesting. yes, good to see you. the next political update from the best political team on from the best political team on television is one hour away. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com well, it is 2:00 p.m. in the east, and if you live east of the mississippi, you are baking, and records are melting in

weather suitable to august and arizona is still burning at the mercy of the unstoppable fire. yesterday i told you about the wallow forest fire is bigger than the city of chicago, and in another 24 hours it has burned another 142,000 square miles so it is larger than the city of los angeles. the biggest wildfire in the history of arizona. another 3,000 people have packed up and cleared out. our affiliate is reporting that the senator joon kyle and his wife are among them. jim spelman is on the phone with me. more than 2,000 firefighters have been out there for days, and still the fire is zero percent contained, and is it that fast and powerful, or are the crews focused on defending specific areas? >> well, it is both, randi. the main problem they are facing is winds. sustained 25-mile-an-hour winds with gusts up to 35 and 40-mile-an-hour winds. with that kind of wind, it moves

so fast, and can send the embers two to three miles away that start the spot fires. they just can't get a handle on it. and like you said, zero percent contained despite being out there 24 hours a day. but like you mentioned in springerville, and the town next door, they are doing what they call structure protection and they have homes out with bulldozers building the trenches around the homes bush th homes, having a difficult time getting a handle on them, randi. >> speak to us how far and wide this fire has moved since we spoke to you yesterday? >> well, it was ten miles away from the town yesterday. and today, less than three miles away, and that is within the range where embers can fly and start these fires. we are starting to see ash fall here. it has been smoky here, but we are starting to see the ash fall here in springerville, and too close for comfort for anybody here. the efforts here on the north side where there is a populated

areas, butt is growing fast. it grew 50% yesterday. from yesterday to this morning. so really going fast, randi. >> are these mandatory evacuations that we are talking about as we see so many people packing up, and i'm ooh curious, is anybody staying behind as some no doubt do even in situations as dangerous as this one? >> absolutely people are staying behind. one of the fire authorities here today told us, look, people have to get out. but they don't have the resources to go to get everybody out of their house and go search people's houses. they do everything to encourage people to leave, but we spoke with people this morning who are staying. you have to think that they might regret their decision as well as their own personal safety, the firefighters stress that they can't have people in the way creating more problems for them as they try to fight the fire, randi. >> and we were talking about gusts up to 35 miles per hour today in terms of the wind.

is that the biggest enemy there? >> indeed. when the wind gusts get up to 35 miles per hour, and in addition to adding more fuel to the increasing fire itself, it keeps the helicopters and the airplanes dropping fire retardant and water grounded, and they cannot operate in those conditions effectively so they ground the fleet. they have 12 or 13 helicopters up right now doing the water drops along the line. that is a big help when the wind gusts above that, they lose that tool in the arsenal, randi. >> and we talked to one of the incident commanders a while ago and she confirmed ten buildings had been lost, but is that a testamentt to the firefighters or has that fire avoided some of the more populated areas? >> right. well, it has mostly gone through the apache national forest and a handful of vacation cottages and cabin-type places, and it has avoided that, but they put a huge effort on than structure protection. so they have bulldozers out and do the back fires where they

intentionally light the fires to eliminate the fuel to form a boundary and they put more emphasis on that than an open field or so. so i would give them an all of the credit in the world for keeping that number down. and they are focused on keeping the number as low as possible as the fire approaching springerville and eager, randi. >> please stay safe there in springerville. thank you. and now more on the arizona-sized heat that is spreading from the upper midwest to the northeast corridor. chad meyers is watching that for us. chad, i can't help but notice that it is not officially summer yet, right? >> right. and you know, that is going to be the story for the next couple of weeks as well, because we won't get a whole lot better as the weeks go on, but minneapolis yesterday broke a record for the day. shattered it by almost ten degrees, but irrelevant, because they haven't been this warm now for ten years and more. dodge city, 102, and rochester at 101.

now all of the sudden the heat is in the rocky mountains, too, and there has been so much snow pack there that there are flood watches and warnings out toward the rockies and the sierra in some spots due to the heat. the heat is melting the snow rapidly. this is what the heat index looks like for the next couple of days. the current heat index feels like 103 in washington, d.c. and 98 in raleigh later today and 96 in columbia, and tomorrow, no better. same numbers and even 99 in new york city, but then wednesday these are the temperatures only, and watch that cold front. maybe the place to be is on a train headed to new york city for the weekend, because by friday, new york city is only 81 degrees. that is something better than what they have seen. back to the fire for a second. ridgetops and flames all of the way through here. these are satellite-derived spots where they find the hot spots and the problems is that the hot spots are only three miles from this town. and you see springerville, and it sounds like a ville, but it

is a large me trop you louse area. and amtrak is suspending service because of the spreading flooding along the missouri levels. there is a high level of stress on the levees that is threatening to flood some towns. officials are scrambling to fill sandbags and try to contain the river. this is likely to continue through most of the summer. joran van der sloot is charged in the death of stephany flores, and her body was found in his hotel room of may of last year, and today, his lawyers will try to convince a judge to consider a lesser sentence

claiming it was a crime of passion and not uvian authoritio file formal charges. he is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalie holloway in aruba in 1995. and now a sobering assessment of a two-year senate foreign relations investigation. they say that the report of billions of dollars in foreign aid to pakistan may have been spent in vain, because the country may not survive the troop withdrawal that is set to begin next month. the report urges president obama to re-think the overall war strategy. he is scheduled to have a telephone conference with president hamid karzai this afternoon. and we are globe trekking in a moment. and the dallas mavericks even up the nba championship

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continues in florida. chloroform searches and cadaver dogs took over much of the testimony today. "in session" on trutv is covering the trial, and sunny hostin who is a correspondent there joins us to talk about it. can you breakdown for us what we have heard over the last day or so about cadaver searches? >> well, we have learned a lot as has the jury. we have learned about training of the cadaver dogs and the substances that are used to detect human remains and decompositional odor and the reliability factor of these dogs. we have learned about the handlers and apparently the dogs are only as good as the handlers and their best friends who are often detectives in a police force, so it has been a learning experience for me and also for the jurors, certainly about the world of the cadaver dog. >> and of course, the defense is trying to knock down whatever

the prosecution witnesses have said about what the cadaver dogs alerted to in terms of the smell of death in the yard or possibly in the trunk. i mean, i have done stories on these cadaver dogs, and they are not always right, so how successful do you think that was, and how reliable are these dogs do you find? >> well, you know, i think that the defense, randi, has done a very good job of calling into question the reliability of these cadaver dogs. remember in this case, the cadaver dogs, two of them alerted twice to the anthony backyard. but little caylee's remains were not found in the anthony backyard. they were found very, very far from that backyard so that the defense has made much of what they are calling a false alert which is not really a false alert, but certainly the alert did not lead to the finding of caylee anthony's remains. >> and we heard quite a bit about these chloroform computer searches.

just tell us what the sig nif ca kans of that was? >> well, this has been significa significant. today, we have had testimony from a specialist who testified that they have found searches for how to make chloroform on the anthony computer. this is very important to the prosecution's theory of the case which is that casey anthony chloroformed her daughter before she duct taped her face thus suffocating her. so the fact that this how to make chloroform search was found in a deleted space on the computer is instrumental for this prosecution's theory. >> yeah, it sounds that way. but my question is, as we watch this all go down, what do the prosecutors have? they have certainly caught casey anthony in lies and odd behavior fol tleg disappearance of her daughter, but any conclusive evidence that casey anthony did this? >> not yet. that is the problem with this

case for prosecutors, randi. you know, i'm a former prosecutor myself, and this is a death penalty case, and the burden is very high and beyond a reasonable doubt. it is an entirely circumstantial case, so that no one is going to testify they saw casey anthony murder caylee anthony. no one is going to testify they saw casey anthony place caylee anthony in a trunk or her remains in the forest, so this is going to be a difficult case for the prosecution, and the picture is certainly incomplete even on day 13. they have yet to tie in my view casey anthony to the murder of caylee anthony. >> and so, what in the end, do you think, sunny, will determine whether or not casey anthony takes the stand? >> well, i think that it is already predetermine and while i could be wrong, the defense's opening statement makes it clear that casey anthony has to get on the witness stand. the theory of this defense is that caylee anthony drowned in the family pool at the end that

george anthony who had been sexually abusing casey anthony helped to cover up that death. so in my view, casey anthony will take the stand. we are learning that the prosecution's case may be over on june 17th. so casey anthony could testify the following week. >> all right. sunny hostin, thank you as always. and a quick reminder that our sister network, hln, is your destination for the complete coverage of the casey anthony trial. you can watch special coverage of the trial throughout the day on hln. so, sick of america's jobs heading overseas? well, what if i told you that there is a place that is paying higher salaries to bring jobs home? yes, it is true. stick around. look, every day we're using more and more energy.

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mexico, but the actual dollars of labor per pin is less here in hop kinville. >> reporter: the wood comes from pennsylvania and ohio and so that the move cut shipping expenses and by bringing the factory to closer supervision, they have also improved the ability to make sure that each pin is precisely like the next one. that is critical. >> you can't have different reacting pins on different lanes in the same bowling center, because it will bring in inconsistency and the scorability of the pins. >> reporter: ebonite which is a giant in the manufacture of bowling balls expects to make 150,000 american-made pins in the new factory's first year. and they are aiming for five to six times as many down the line. tom foreman, cnn. well, meredith whitney is known for predicting warnings on

the financial markets, and this time, she is gaining controversy about her comments on the bond market. listen to this. >> there is not a doubt in my mind that you le soo a spate of municipal bond defaults. >> how many is a spate? >> 50 to 100 sizable defaults or more. this will amount to hundreds of billionings of dollars of defaults. >> cnn's poppy harlow sat down with whitney and she talked to poppy about that quote and the feeling that the states are far more broke than anyone is letting on. >> because what you have is what the consumer has done and the corporates have done a good job of delevering and the corporates are in a great position. consumers are in a process of delevering and the states have not delevered, and in fact, state spending has grown over in excess of 35% what the consumer spending has grown over the past decade, so people talk about the

reckless consumer spending, but the states are far more reckless. >> you predict $100 million in defaults of muni-bonds over the next five years and does the evidence from this report support that theory more or do you still believe it is the case of hundreds of billions? >> i believe that the number is going to be really big. i think that is what it looked like to me at the time, and things have gotten worse. i think that the number is going to be worse, but it is just that there is not a lot of optionalty for the states. too much leverage was put into the system that cannot take it anymore. everybody will take concessions, and you have seen the restructuring on the bonds, and we are not calling them defaults now, but when you get the reprofiles like in greece and you are turned down on a bond, you know, that is a default. so, this, you know, i wish i could say that something in the last year has made me change my tune on this, but it doesn't look any better at this point.

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well, we have been showing you a lot of weather, and we want to let you know how long it will stick around, and the heat across the country. chad meyers is here to tell us about how it is going to be looking in arizona. >> yesterday, the high gust was 38 and the day before the highest gust was 58, so the storm is coming down out of the rockies and moving basically into the southwestern part of the country. that may eventually take the wind and move it into texas, new mexico, kansas, oklahoma and places that equally could burn as well. but it has been so very hot. it has been hot across the west and the east and the current heat index right now is 103 in washington, d.c. it stays hot all day today with the indexes in the heat indices well over 100 degrees from philadelphia through new york. this is the heat that you just

can't get away from. the heat that you can't cool down, because your body's sweat won't evaporate. the humidity is too high. i wish i could say that about the arizona areas, because the relative humidity right now at the fire site, and i just checked it is 10%. 10%! they would love it to be 80% or 90% so that some of the humidity could get into the plants, but not happening. a toasty wednesday and not so bad of a thursday across chicago and detroit as a cold front comes by, and maybe new york city is the place for at least a couple off hours will be in friday and maybe saturday before it starts to warm back up. but 81 in new york city is actually not going to be all that bad. now i want to take you out to the colorado rockies. flying you through, and this is our google earth. there are still feet, feet of snow in the rockies. want me to prove it to you? right there. a live shot from kusa, our affiliate from denver, colorado. t this is facing to the arapaho

basin up above, and those guys would love to ski every single day of the year. they are closed today, but they are going to open up again for winter skiing and spring skiing and summer almost on the weekend, and close again next monday through friday and open again the next couple off weekends. so they are going to try to keep it open as much as possible and they haven't been able to make any snow lately, obviously, but there are some spots in the colorado rockies of 50 to 70 feet of snow on top of the mountains, and the snow has just lasted. in fact, that snow and the very cold air over to the rocky mountains caused by the snow may have been a big contributor to to see veer weathhe severe weate in joplin, and tuscaloosa, because when you get the warm front, and the warm and the cold clash, you will get bigger storms than you should have had or could have had, and hence all of the tornadoes and ef-4s and 5s and tornados like we have

never seen before. >> all kinds of stuff. chad, before we go, we are going "off of the radar." and we have cool photos from nasa. >> i do. yesterday we talked about this soyuz thing getting shot up into space, and there is an cosmonaut and astronaut and japanese astronaut up in the soyuz capsule going up to the iss, and on the way up, they took fantastic pictures of the shuttle that is docked. you see it on the left docked to the iss and here comes soyuz and it is going to come in to dock as well. and the soyuz will bring three new people to the iss and it is actually going to -- this is the cool part -- the japanese astronaut is going to go to grow things. cucumbers and tomatoes and things. you won't be able to eat them though, because they don't know what it is like to be growing in zero gravity, but they will bring them back down and test them and see what it is like to grow things up where it could be

more sustainable and you don't have to eat all of the frozen packaged mre-type food. >> and we hardly ever get cool pictures like that. >> yes, that is right. most f mostly from the shuttle. >> yeah, but not like that. and now russian toilets, and is it possible to make them bomb-proof? we will find out. [ waves crashing ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] and just like that, it's here. a new chance for all of us: people, companies, communities to face the challenges yesterday left behind

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over the past decade the u.s. has spent billions of dollars on nation building projects in afghanistan. add to that the $10 billion spent monthly on fighting the war there. now, a two of-year congressional report says that at best, success has been limited. so here to talk about all after othis is michael holmes. the report is a stinging report. >> just going back to what you read there, $10 billion a month,

and i don't think that a lot of people get their head around that of how much it is costing. >> that is why the report could be so damaging. >> this is from the senate foreign relations committee and they put out this report which is stinging. it took them two years to do this, and what they found is that the aid programs and the development programs going on for years and years and years now have not always worked. and a lot of them are just not working. in fact, they are a waste of money. you have heard the old clear and hold and build, and that is what the military used to do. go in and clear the area of the taliban and hold the area and set up a good security system and rebuild the infrastructure and aid the people with the hope of winning hearts and minds. but what this is report is saying is that a lot of the money is not being well spent. you are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. >> what would happen if they weren't getting that money anymore which is what some think is the best idea. >> well, you see, that is right. but the problem is that ongoing, and once the u.s. does draw down to troops which is meant to

start this year of course, and once that happens, you are talking about maintaining the programs, and a lot of the programs the aid programs have been set up are going to require maintenance, and when we are not there, they are going to run down. then it is a waste of money in the beginning to have them there and counterproductive, too, because the people benefiting from the programs no longer are, and that creates resentment as well. >> and another thing that came up is the question of the inflated salaries? >> yeah, that is right. the danger being that, and i have been to afghanistan four times. i have seen this, too, where people are put on the payroll by us, by nato, and work for the coalition in various jobs whether it is construction or whether it is aid programs or whatever, and they are paid sometimes two to three to four times what the afghan salary would be for that type of job. again, this has created an unrealistic attitude, and unrealistic expectation of life, and what life will be like. because once we are gone again, those salaries are going to disappear, so it has been counterproductive and again,

expensive. >> let's switch to america's other war. these two iraqi citizens indicted on terrorism charges. their first court appearance today was in kentucky. this is sort of a scary proposition, because they were allowed here, right, part of the refugees that are allowed to come into the country and then, boy, what a surprise. >> right. it is the first time that iraqis are resettled here and in the troubled areas. you see one of them there. now, both of them are charged with conspiring to provide material support to iraq and we are talking about guns and missiles and the like. what is interesting here, too, is that alwan is charged with conspiring against individuals abroad, because his fingerprint was found on a bomb that was to be used against u.s. troops. but he is allowed in because they didn't know about it at the time. but conspiring to kill americans

abroad raises a legal issue, this is a war and was he an enemy soldier? if you start to charge people who kill americans in war, and charging the other side, and that opens up a hornet's nest legally, and the prosecution says he is actually an enemy insurgent which makes him not a soldier per se, but it is interesting legal argument, because if you have a war going on and people fight you in the way they do, are they terrorists or soldiers? >> well, i know it is interesting, because they increased the controls of the refugees coming in from iraq after the attempted christmas day bombing, but another 20,000 that are slated to arrive this year. >> well, keep it in perspective. >> only two. >> and the vast majority of these people are deserving of entry. i know dozens who are here and here for good reason there. is the first two that are from iraq that have been caught up in alleged to have been involved in

this sort of thing, so you have to keep it in perspective, too, because there are a lot of iraqis in iraq that we owe, too, so very serious charges and very unusual charges, too. >> all right. michael, thank you. >> take care. >> you, too. we are all worried about security and privacy when it comes to the internet, and facebook has made a change to the settings involving your pictures. we show you how to opt-out right after this quick break. host: could switching to geico really save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance? was abe lincoln honest? mary: does this dress make my backside look big? abe: perhaps... host: could switching to geico reon car insurance? e

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rolled out a new face identification software. here is how it works. say you go on the trip and take a ton of pictures and you want your friends to see them on facebook so you upload them. in the past if you wanted to identify them, you would tag on them in the picture and click their face and pick them from a list of the friends, and let me take a moment here to let you know just how many people tag pictures everyday on facebook. yes, there is the number. check it out. according to facebook more than 100 million tags are made by users every single day, 100 million. great future, but it takes forever to go through each individual picture. well, this new facial recognition feature of facebook can help to speed up the process. facebook uses a program to identify the people in your pictures and make suggestions for the tags. so if your husband is in the tag with you and he is also your friend on facebook, you would hope, well, the software would try to identify him and ask you if you approve, and you can say,

yes, if it is really your husband or no, if it is a stranger perhaps. so what happened today? is well, today, facebook activated the feature for all of the users and that is the sticking point. you weren't given the option to opt-out before facebook activated the feature, so right now your facebook account is set up to automatically allow the facial recognition software to be used on pictures that you upload to the social media website. so let me show you how to opt-out just in case you decide to. okay. here is my computer, right here on set with many. you just go to account, and it is right there on the front, and then you go the privacy settings, and then there's a customized settings button and then if you scroll down, you will go to things others share, and right here, it says suggest photos of me to friends, and there is an edit settings button and click that. right now mine is enabled which means they would be able to find me, but i am going to disable it

just to show you and then you click okay, anb thd then you arl set. so right now i'm disabled, and that is easy for you at home. if you want to try it, check it out. well, the whole weiner debacle is raising the issue of social media and can tweeting constitute cheating? we will hash out that argument and you want to hear what one divorce attorney has to say next.

>> of all of the questions that the anthony weiner scandal has raised is one that is persuasive and not at all political. i'm talking about fidelity and monogamy, and what is thrown into the debate. gone are the days of the fleeting flirting moment with a stranger. with social media sites like facebook and weiner-gate has made clear, twitter. there is much more access to people, and people we may find attractive or people that we may not otherwise get the chance to see or talk to in person. that brings us to today's stream team and the notion of tweeting versus cheating. what constitutes a betrayal or

deception online? joining me to tackle this is rowland martin on the phone with us. and divorce and family law attorney jennifer brant, and author terry reel. thank you for coming on and talking to us about this. jennifer, i want to start with you, because you are a divorce attorney, and how many of your cases involve online cheating and is there a legal definition for this? is tweeting cheating? >> i would say that nowadays 90% of my cases involve some type of online cheating or online posting of pictures, and it is not only cheating. sometimes it is a custody case where people post inappropriate pictures, but social media is per vative avasive and people hs to it and they are using it to get themselves in trouble. >> it is considered cheating? >> well, i think that it is. because it is a betrayal of trust. in the divorce world cheating is not as important as people think it is.

it does not make a difference in terms of the economic outcome of a divorce case. it may have impact in custody, and now with the most states have no-fault divorce, you don't have to prove that somebody did something wrong in order to get a divorce, but from the emotional standpoint, and the reason why people might choose to get a divorce, cheating is one of the primary causes. and something like this situation where somebody is sending lewd pictures or having inappropriate chat with even an old boyfriend may be enough to put the spouse over the edge and cause them to file for a divorce. absolutely. >> and roland, i want to bring you in, because what are your thoughts about this? is tweeting cheating? >> well, here is what is interesting when you begin to define what is cheating, and it is based upon frankly individual's morals and values. so society can have their own standards as to what is cheating, but it comes down to the individuals. if you look at the christian faith, the bible says that even if i may lust after someone, even in my mind, that is

committing adultery, but you are violating the marriage covenant. now, i'm not necessarily saying that what it might be for other faiths as well, but that is how it is in the christian faith, and comes down to individuals. but when you talk about the whole notion of the congressman weiner's case and tiger woodings' case. and if tiger had been a single man and weiner a single man, the reaction from the public would not be the same, because we view a bachelor differently than we do somebody who is married. we view somebody who cheats on a girlfriend or boyfriend differently than cheating on a husband or wife. so society's standards really depends upon what they are doing, and the actions and if there is a grade level this might be on the scale of 1 to 5, a 2 or 3, but it would be actually sexual intercourse, that is considered a five. >> oh, yeah. and terry, i want to read one of the viewer comments and get your

response to it. t j jennifer says cheating is cheating whether you are physically sharing yourself with another or whether it is visuals there. are so many forms of cheat iing from an actual physical affair to an emotional one. so terry, are you thinking that men are likely to say, this is is not cheating and it is okay to send pictures like this more likely than women? >> unfortunately, i think that is true. i think that men would be more likely to say sex is sex and if it isn't sex, it is not cheating. the idea of an emotional affair is relatively new news to men. whereas women will feel if anything more threatened by the emotional element of inappropriate behavior. and to get to the question that you asked earlier, the rule is

if your partner being reasonable would be enormously upset hearing you or seeing what you are doing, then you are over the line, whether it is cheating or not, it is inappropriate behavior. >> and i disagree with one thing, because i won't say that men see it differently, because if you ask a man if your wife did it, how would you respond, i think that the person who is doing it is going to have the different reaction. because they might say, well, no, i don't see it as that way, and you can also ask, well, if you had some people who are married and they are flirting, how do you all sort of see how that is? well, people assume that men will see it differently, and when you look at the stats of women who cheat, a person who is doing it likely is the one who is going to say, i don't see it that way. >> well, jennifer, let me bring you in quickly here before we are out of time. i want your perspective on the comment from the viewers, it is cheating but if the lady are

single and she's not offends, then it is not cheating. >> well, it is wrong, whether it is a relationship whether it is marriage or different type of relationship. if he has a girlfriend, i mean, again, back to the trust issue. and to comment on what was said before about the difference of men and women, i don't see that difference in my practice at all. there are many men out there who are highly offended and go forward with the divorce just because their wife may be communicating with an old boyfriend and does not reach the issue of physical contact, but it is just conversation. any time anyone feels threatened in a relationship and feels they cannot trust their partner, that is cheating in my book, and that may be enough for them to take the next step to go forward with the divorce. >> very lively discussion. i heard you, jennifer. and certainly lively discussion and a lot of opinions certainly from the men and the women on both sides here. thank you all for joining us. time now for the cnn political update. senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins me

from capitol hill. and dana, the pressure continues to mount for representative weiner who we have been talking about. >> that is right. tim kane who was a former democratic chairman running for senate now in the purple conservative state of virginia is the first prominent democrat, randi, to come out to say he should resign. kane told cbs that lying publicly about something like this is unforgivable and he should resign. here in congress nobody has said that yet. we did hear some strong words from the senate democratic leader harry reid today, and today, randi, our producer paul corazon caught up with the number two who indicated he is not happy, dick durbin. >> any thoughts on tim cane's position on representative weiner, and he should resign. any thoughts? >> now, despite this mounting pressure, we are told from the

democratic sources that weiner is making clear behind the scenes he has no intention of resigning. he is making calls, and has been since monday when he did that press conference publicly and saying privately to colleagues and friends and supporters that he is regretful for what happened and one of the calls is to the former president bill clinton who married weiner and his wife who is very close to the clintons, and both of whom are with his wife huma. >> thank you, dana bash. your next political update from the best political team on television is an hour away. and monday on cnn, new hampshire will host the gop republican presidential debate at 8:00 eastern time. it will happen monday night only on cnn. well, delta air lines charged american soldiers for luggage and we are talking about thousands of dollars. it is today's xyz and it is

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